Antique Silver Dealers

Antique Silver

About Antique Silver Dealers

Collecting antique silver is very interesting hobby and a very good investment. You can find many quality pieces of antique silver at reasonable prices from established antique silver dealers.

An antique silver dealer buys and sells antique silver objects and collector’s items. To be classed as antiques, silver objects are usually over one hundred years old. Antique silver items are priced according to their exclusivity and condition.

Antique silver dealers may specialize in a particular area, such as silver jewelry. They may have an interest in a certain period or style. The work of antique silver dealers usually involves visiting auctions, auction houses, private clients, markets and trade fairs, buying silver items, researching the background and potential value of silver objects, selling silver items directly to the public, through a shop, rented retail space at an antique centre or fair, or from home, selling silver items online, on their own website, online auction site or through a specialized antique portal, carrying out minor restoration work.

Antique Silver Dealer Trade Associations

Antique Silver

You should buy silver of any value from an Antique Silver Dealer who belongs to a reputable trade association, such as the BADA (British Antique Dealers’ Association), the LAPADA (London And Provincial Antique Dealers’ Association), NAADAA (National Antique & Art Dealers Association of America), Art and Antique Dealers League of America or CINOA.

All these trade associations have Codes of Practice with which their members should comply. The fact that antique silver dealer have taken the trouble to apply for membership and have been accepted, shows that they are serious and established antique silver dealer. There are a many antique silver dealers who are not members of a trade association and who are extremely serious and totally sound dealers. However, the backing of a trade association does give a certain reassurance to a buyer who does not know the antique silver dealer he is buying from. Furthermore, if there should be a serious dispute between buyer and antique silver dealer, both parties have recourse to the trade association to help mediate.